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Passion with Louie Giglio | Worth Dying For | September 20, 2021
- - It is essential that we understand
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- that the gospel is a global story,
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- and that it is the power that we're looking for
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- to unite divided humanity.
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- And it's interesting as we come to the end
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- of the book of Acts, you get to Acts 28,
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- Paul, who is one of the main characters in this story,
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- has arrived in Rome.
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- He's finally made it to Rome.
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- He wants to be a light and a witness
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- at the epicenter of civilization at that time.
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- And then the book just ends, and Paul's there,
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- and his friends and some family are around,
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- and the book just ends and there's no real resolution
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- to what happens to Paul's life.
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- And for that, we turn to some of the other letters
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- that he wrote in the New Testament and to church tradition.
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- And we see, at the end of the day,
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- what he was willing to give his life for.
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- I'm in 2 Timothy 4,
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- reading in verse six,
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- and Paul knows he's coming to the end of the road.
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- And he's writing to Timothy,
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- who is the guy that he's raising up
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- to carry the torch forward.
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- And coming to the very end of this second letter to Timothy,
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- he says, "For I, verse six, "am all ready being poured out
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- like a drink offering,
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- and the time has come for my departure."
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- Now that's the kind of mentality
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- that we gotta have in life,
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- and it's certainly the mentality you wanna have in death.
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- I'm not ending here,
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- I'm just departing for somewhere else here,
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- my flight is about to leave.
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- And he was excited about this moment in time
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- because of verse seven.
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- He said, "I have fought the good fight,
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- I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
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- Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness,
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- which the Lord, the righteous Judge,
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- will award to me on that day.
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- And not only to me, but also to all."
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- Can you say that word with me?
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- To all. - All.
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- - Now I want everybody say it together.
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- To all. - All.
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- - So there's a crown of righteousness
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- that I believe that the Lord is going to give me
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- on that day, but also to all
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- who have longed for His appearing.
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- Now, that sounds like the final word to me.
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- That that sounds like the end.
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- I'm out, drop the mic, I'm done.
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- My departure is near.
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- My flight is leaving, and I feel really good
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- about the way that I've lived my life.
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- I finished my race.
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- I have kept the faith.
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- I know that there is going to be something ahead for me
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- that is greater than anything I've experienced
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- already in my journey with God.
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- Feels like a mic-drop moment,
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- but then we get some personal remarks
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- at the end of this letter.
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- This is Scripture still,
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- so it's still inspired by the Holy Spirit,
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- it still has a purpose for your life in my life,
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- but it's just personal remarks.
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- And you're like, why are there personal remarks
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- in the Bible?
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- Why is there extra stuff
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- followed in the end by final greetings?
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- I don't need any final greetings
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- and I don't need any personal remarks.
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- You just made the drop-the-mic statement of all time.
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- Everyone wants to be able to say this,
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- "I fought the good fight,
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- I finished the race, I kept the faith.
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- There's a crown of righteousness
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- that the Lord Jesus has in store for me.
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- Goodbye. I'm out."
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- But the Holy Spirit says, "No, no.
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- I want you to put some personal remarks in it,
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- and then I want you to put some final greetings
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- in it after that."
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- It's all God breathed,
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- and it's got a role in people's lives.
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- Why?
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- Because if you are going to get in this story,
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- you have to onboard a few big ideas,
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- and we're closing with them today.
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- Number one, you have to make sure
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- that you never mistake visibility for value
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- on this journey of making Jesus known
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- here, there, and everywhere.
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- - Wow. - Come on.
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- - In this story, what God is looking for today,
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- right here, today, at Passion City Church,
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- this is not, like, theoretical.
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- This is us today hearing from God, and He's saying,
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- "What I'm looking for today is availability,
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- not necessarily visibility."
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- Now that doesn't mean that you're not gonna ultimately
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- be visible, but you might be visible
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- to the person that you work next to, or your neighbor,
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- or somebody that is in the shadows of life.
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- And you may never be on a stage,
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- you may never be Paul or Peter or John or Stephen
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- or Barnabas or Silas or some of these other apostles
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- who really do get the spotlight in the book of Acts.
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- So the personal remarks, can we get excited about them?
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- I have a few of them underlined in my Bible.
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- Crazy, I know.
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- "Do your best to come to me quickly."
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- So he's telling Timothy, "Hey, if you can get to where I am,
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- I need you to come as quickly as possible."
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- "For Demas, because he loved this world,
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- has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica.
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- Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
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- Only Luke is with me.
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- Get Mark and bring him with you,
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- because he is helpful to me in my ministry.
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- I sent Tychicus,"
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- I'm not sure exactly how he pronounced his name,
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- "to Ephesus, and when you come,
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- bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas."
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- Now, why is this in the Bible?
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- Do we really need the personal remarks?
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- I forgot my coat.
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- (congregation laughing)
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- Holy Spirit, breathe on that word today.
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- (congregation laughing)
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- "And my scrolls and the parchments."
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- Then 14, another guy.
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- "Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm.
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- The Lord will repay him for what he has done."
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- Getting some personal remarks in, people.
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- (congregation laughing)
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- "You too should be on your guard against him,
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- because he strongly opposed our message."
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- And then he shares a little bit about his struggle,
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- and he comes down to the end and he says in verse 18,
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- "The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack
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- and will bring me safely to His heavenly kingdom.
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- To Him be glory for forever and ever. Amen."
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- That's gotta be the mic drop.
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- Nope.
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- Final greetings.
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- (congregation laughing)
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- "Great Priscilla and Aquila."
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- Now, this couple appears all through the ministry of Paul.
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- They were companions of his in ministry.
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- Sometimes they'd go before,
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- sometimes they would stay behind,
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- but they were a powerhouse couple,
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- both of them in ministry with Paul.
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- "Greet them and the household of Onesiphorus.
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- Erastus stayed in Corinth,
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- and I left Trophimus sick in Miletus."
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- Now that's a whole 'nother sermon for another day,
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- and I really don't wanna make a big point of it,
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- but Paul left a guy behind who didn't feel well.
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- So everybody doesn't get healed in the story of God.
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- Okay, sorry, I should have just left that out.
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- But it's Paul.
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- If you don't feel well and you're traveling with Paul,
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- you're good, right?
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- Because he has authority and power
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- as an apostle to do amazing miracles,
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- but for whatever reason, this dude got left behind
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- because he wasn't feeling good.
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- "Do your best to get here before winter."
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- Thus the coat.
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- (congregation laughing)
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- Eubulus greets you."
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- Yeah, put that in your online dating profile name.
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- Hi, I'm Eubulus.
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- (congregation laughing)
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- "And so do Pudens, Linus, Claudia,"
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- and now we've got a whole band of brothers,
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- "all the brothers.
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- The Lord be with your spirit.
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- Grace be with you."
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- Mic drop.
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- Why?
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- Because God wants to make it clear
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- that value and visibility don't always go hand in hand.
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- The second thing that has to be true is,
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- we have to erase the secular and spiritual divide,
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- and see that we are all ministers of the gospel.
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- If you didn't see or hear the message
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- from Andrew Scott last week, I'm just so encouraging you
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- to take time to go and watch it.
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- It was an incredible invitation for you and me
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- to use the things that God has wired us to do
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- for the purpose of taking the story of Jesus to the world.
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- So what we've gotta do somehow is tear down this mindset
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- that says, oh, the professional people,
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- they tell people about Jesus, and the rest of us over here,
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- we have all kinds of other lesser important jobs
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- that wouldn't really fit in to a spiritual purpose.
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- And God wants you to understand that if you know Jesus
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- and have had an experience with Him,
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- if you've had an encounter with Jesus
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- that has changed your life,
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- you are now qualified and invited in
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- to be a minister of the gospel story of Jesus to the world.
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- You're invited in right here and right now.
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- Everyone is invited in.
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- And that's only gonna happen
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- if you see that there's no distinction
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- between the sacred people over here
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- and the secular people over here,
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- that God has put you where you are for a reason,
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- He's given you the gifts that He's given to you
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- for a reason, and your vocation, that is your ministry.
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- See, you hear people all the time, they're like, yeah,
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- I have a job, and da, da, da, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
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- but I also serve at my church, and that's my ministry,
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- or I'm a door holder, and that's my ministry.
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- No, that is your ministry, but your job is your ministry.
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- No, that's just where I make money so I can pay my mortgage,
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- so I can go on vacation a couple of weeks every summer,
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- so I can send my kids to college,
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- so I can do the stuff I really wanna do.
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- My job's just a means to an end.
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- Well, if your job is just a means to an end,
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- you need a new job.
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- If your job is simply a way to get to the weekend,
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- you need a new job,
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- 'cause God did not give you gifts, ability, talent,
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- He didn't give you opportunity,
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- He did not give you a unique set of skills,
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- just so you can sit at a Zoom or sit at a desk
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- and bide your time till the weekend.
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- That is not God's plan for your life.
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- And you get one shot at life on planet earth, this is it.
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- And you're telling me, you're gonna spend five days a week
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- doing something you don't like
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- just so you can go somewhere you wanna go on the weekend?
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- Man, you need a revelation, you need to wake up,
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- and you need a new job, and you need a new view.
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- You are put on the planet with certain gifts,
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- abilities, talents, aptitude,
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- so that you can be a biotechnician,
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- so that you can be in sales.
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- You could sell a rock to another rock, you just have it.
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- (congregation laughing)
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- So that you can be in education or be in finance or banking
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- or in some part of the healthcare industry.
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- All that was God wiring you up uniquely
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- to put you in a sphere of this world
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- where you could be a beacon of light and hope in your world.
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- They're not inviting me to your company.
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- I have not gotten one invitation this year
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- to come to any of your workplaces.
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- No one has called.
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- No, you can ask the team here, no one has called.
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- Hi, we work over at the printing company
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- and we'd just love it if Pastor Louie could come over
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- and do a Bible study, tell everyone about Jesus,
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- share the love of God.
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- Is he available?
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- Haven't gotten a call.
- 00:13:53.590 --> 00:13:56.093
- But you have the little thing when you swipe it on the deal,
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- the light turns green and the door opens
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- and you walk in every day.
- 00:14:02.199 --> 00:14:05.936
- Why?
- 00:14:06.203 --> 00:14:07.638
- Well, it's just where I'm working right now.
- 00:14:07.638 --> 00:14:09.039
- My brother knew somebody who worked there before,
- 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:11.208
- and blah, blah, blah,
- 00:14:11.208 --> 00:14:12.676
- and they blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
- 00:14:12.676 --> 00:14:14.745
- I got a job.
- 00:14:14.745 --> 00:14:16.280
- Wow, that's inspiring.
- 00:14:16.847 --> 00:14:18.515
- (congregation laughing)
- 00:14:18.515 --> 00:14:20.751
- I don't really like it, but it's what I'm doing right now.
- 00:14:20.751 --> 00:14:22.819
- That's inspiring.
- 00:14:22.819 --> 00:14:24.288
- I really don't do that great of a job, honestly, at it,
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- because my boss isn't even around right now,
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- and we're working remotely from home,
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- so nobody knows what I'm doing,
- 00:14:31.695 --> 00:14:33.196
- so I'm not hardly even doing much right now,
- 00:14:33.196 --> 00:14:35.599
- but that's cool 'cause it's COVID.
- 00:14:35.599 --> 00:14:37.701
- That's inspiring.
- 00:14:38.168 --> 00:14:40.304
- Man, I hope I get some employees like that
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- when I get a business to run,
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- who only work when somebody's watching them.
- 00:14:46.310 --> 00:14:49.413
- I don't know why I even got into all of this-
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- - You're preaching. (congregation laughing)
- 00:14:52.916 --> 00:14:54.685
- - Except to say, God may have put you in your job
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- because people at your work need Jesus.
- 00:15:01.358 --> 00:15:05.629
- - That's right. - Yes.
- 00:15:05.629 --> 00:15:15.105
- - Well, what am I supposed to do,
- 00:15:15.906 --> 00:15:17.107
- buy everybody at the office a Bible?
- 00:15:17.107 --> 00:15:19.509
- Maybe not the first step.
- 00:15:19.509 --> 00:15:23.146
- Number one, crush your job to the glory of God.
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- Make it impossible for them to do what they do without you.
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- Number one.
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- If you don't even believe in God
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- and don't even care about Jesus, still do that.
- 00:15:41.698 --> 00:15:45.002
- That's the best thing anyone can do.
- 00:15:45.869 --> 00:15:49.139
- Add value to people's lives and to the community
- 00:15:50.207 --> 00:15:53.577
- and to the world, crush your job.
- 00:15:53.577 --> 00:15:56.813
- Secondly, care about the people you work with.
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- Don't participate in the negative stories.
- 00:16:01.084 --> 00:16:03.387
- Build up positive stories, and care about people.
- 00:16:03.387 --> 00:16:06.456
- And if you do those two things, you will be noticed,
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- and probably promoted, at your place of work.
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- And when you are noticed and promoted at your place of work,
- 00:16:12.863 --> 00:16:15.632
- it will give you two paths to get on.
- 00:16:15.632 --> 00:16:17.567
- One of them is, I'm building my brand,
- 00:16:17.567 --> 00:16:19.770
- one of them is, I'm building a platform
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- to share the brand that is the brand.
- 00:16:21.872 --> 00:16:24.007
- - Wow. - Yeah.
- 00:16:24.007 --> 00:16:25.308
- - And as you continue to crush your job
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- and care for the people around you,
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- most likely you will continue to be promoted.
- 00:16:32.215 --> 00:16:36.186
- And eventually you will get equity
- 00:16:36.186 --> 00:16:40.757
- to be able to say, "I'm a Christian,"
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- and not get cut off before you finish the sentence.
- 00:16:45.829 --> 00:16:49.466
- The third thing that has to happen
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- is that we can't lose sight of the ultimate
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- because of the immediate.
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- This verse is underlined in my text
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- because one of my mentors when I was in high school
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- and at summer youth camp in our church group,
- 00:17:06.016 --> 00:17:09.686
- he used to teach on this text all the time.
- 00:17:09.686 --> 00:17:12.689
- He said in verse nine, "Do your best to come to me quickly,
- 00:17:12.689 --> 00:17:15.325
- for Demas, because he loved this world,
- 00:17:15.325 --> 00:17:18.762
- has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica."
- 00:17:18.762 --> 00:17:24.067
- You can go and track in a few other of the writings of Paul
- 00:17:25.335 --> 00:17:29.539
- and you can catch up to where Demas joins the team,
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- where he gets in on a mission.
- 00:17:32.242 --> 00:17:33.677
- Imagine being a guy who's right next to Paul in the flow.
- 00:17:33.677 --> 00:17:38.782
- But the pull and the allure is so strong that at some point
- 00:17:40.016 --> 00:17:43.487
- he just checks out and says, "You know what?
- 00:17:43.487 --> 00:17:45.622
- My friends keep texting me,
- 00:17:45.622 --> 00:17:47.090
- they're in Thessalonica right now, it's all going down,
- 00:17:47.090 --> 00:17:50.494
- and I just feel like maybe I wanna go join them."
- 00:17:50.494 --> 00:17:54.064
- And he abandons the ultimate for the immediate.
- 00:17:55.132 --> 00:18:00.637
- And I feel like, if we're just honest today,
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- that's where a lot of us are.
- 00:18:04.241 --> 00:18:05.942
- We don't disbelieve that God has a mission.
- 00:18:05.942 --> 00:18:10.247
- We're just more interested in the immediate
- 00:18:10.247 --> 00:18:13.049
- than the ultimate.
- 00:18:13.049 --> 00:18:14.584
- It's far easier for me to invest my money
- 00:18:15.552 --> 00:18:19.322
- in something that immediately brings benefit to my life
- 00:18:19.322 --> 00:18:23.927
- rather than giving of myself to the ultimate end,
- 00:18:23.927 --> 00:18:28.665
- that Jesus be known everywhere on planet earth.
- 00:18:28.665 --> 00:18:32.235
- And I know that that pull is strong.
- 00:18:33.103 --> 00:18:36.907
- Paul said, "I'm ready to go.
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- I'm ready to go right now.
- 00:18:39.809 --> 00:18:41.344
- I have fought the good fight, I have finished my race,
- 00:18:42.479 --> 00:18:47.284
- and I have kept the faith.
- 00:18:47.918 --> 00:18:50.654
- I'm ready to go right now.
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- I never lost sight of the ultimate for the immediate."
- 00:18:53.890 --> 00:19:01.131
- Tying closely to that,
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- you can't buy the lie that past failure will disqualify you
- 00:19:04.401 --> 00:19:09.206
- from future and current roles in God's story.
- 00:19:09.206 --> 00:19:15.278
- In other words, you can't buy in to this idea
- 00:19:16.279 --> 00:19:18.815
- that because you blew it somewhere along the way,
- 00:19:18.815 --> 00:19:21.184
- you don't get a chance to be back into the story.
- 00:19:21.184 --> 00:19:23.620
- That's what he says right after this in verse 11,
- 00:19:23.620 --> 00:19:25.722
- "Only Luke is with me."
- 00:19:25.722 --> 00:19:27.023
- Now, who is Luke, by the way?
- 00:19:27.023 --> 00:19:28.558
- Luke's the guy who wrote the entire book of Acts,
- 00:19:28.558 --> 00:19:30.860
- wrote the gospel of Luke, eye witness account of Jesus,
- 00:19:30.860 --> 00:19:33.597
- and then he wrote the account of the ascension of Jesus
- 00:19:33.597 --> 00:19:38.468
- back into heaven, the coming of the Holy Spirit,
- 00:19:38.468 --> 00:19:41.204
- the birth of the church, and all the story that we've seen
- 00:19:41.204 --> 00:19:44.874
- of the expansion of the early church.
- 00:19:44.874 --> 00:19:46.643
- All that came through the eyewitness documentation
- 00:19:46.643 --> 00:19:50.647
- of Dr. Luke.
- 00:19:50.647 --> 00:19:52.182
- And now Luke is with Paul at the end.
- 00:19:52.182 --> 00:19:55.218
- He's still there writing the last bit of Acts with Paul,
- 00:19:55.218 --> 00:20:00.323
- but then he says, "Get Mark and bring him with you,
- 00:20:01.458 --> 00:20:04.527
- because he is helpful to me in my ministry."
- 00:20:04.527 --> 00:20:08.131
- Now, we've talked about this a lot in the past,
- 00:20:08.131 --> 00:20:10.800
- but when Paul took off the first time with Barnabas,
- 00:20:10.800 --> 00:20:14.738
- John Mark was with them,
- 00:20:14.738 --> 00:20:16.072
- but John Mark bailed on the mission.
- 00:20:16.072 --> 00:20:18.708
- And so when they started out the second time,
- 00:20:18.708 --> 00:20:21.344
- Barnabas wants John Mark to come along again,
- 00:20:21.344 --> 00:20:23.246
- and Paul said "No way, he's a quitter, and he ain't coming."
- 00:20:23.246 --> 00:20:26.983
- And Paul and Barnabas split over it.
- 00:20:27.851 --> 00:20:30.987
- It wasn't like a big, giant theological riff.
- 00:20:32.022 --> 00:20:34.324
- It was just, not if he's coming.
- 00:20:34.324 --> 00:20:36.793
- And all of us sudden, now there's two new teams going out,
- 00:20:36.793 --> 00:20:40.297
- but somewhere along the way, Mark got back in the story,
- 00:20:40.297 --> 00:20:44.200
- got back in the flow,
- 00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:45.902
- even though he'd kind of been embarrassed,
- 00:20:45.902 --> 00:20:48.071
- when you get shut out of a return journey by Paul himself,
- 00:20:48.071 --> 00:20:52.409
- that word trickles around.
- 00:20:52.409 --> 00:20:54.778
- Oh, you're the quitter
- 00:20:54.778 --> 00:20:56.279
- who didn't get to go on the second missionary trip.
- 00:20:56.279 --> 00:20:57.714
- That's awesome.
- 00:20:57.714 --> 00:20:59.382
- But now somehow he's back,
- 00:20:59.382 --> 00:21:01.217
- and he's back in the story, he's been restored.
- 00:21:01.217 --> 00:21:03.620
- We see that in a different place in Paul's writing.
- 00:21:03.620 --> 00:21:06.456
- And now in the fine print, in the personal remarks,
- 00:21:06.456 --> 00:21:10.393
- which we're not sure we didn't just end with a mic drop,
- 00:21:10.393 --> 00:21:13.229
- oh, because God wants people to know,
- 00:21:13.229 --> 00:21:15.832
- even though you are out, you can be back in.
- 00:21:15.832 --> 00:21:18.635
- - Amazing. - Amen.
- 00:21:18.635 --> 00:21:20.070
- - Even though you failed, you can get back in.
- 00:21:20.070 --> 00:21:22.172
- Even though you quit, you can get back in.
- 00:21:22.172 --> 00:21:25.342
- None of your past situation
- 00:21:25.342 --> 00:21:28.278
- is gonna keep you from getting back in the story of God.
- 00:21:28.278 --> 00:21:30.780
- May change the configuration a little bit
- 00:21:30.780 --> 00:21:32.549
- of how and where you're serving,
- 00:21:32.549 --> 00:21:34.017
- but your story can be used for somebody else
- 00:21:34.017 --> 00:21:39.356
- to understand the goodness and the grace of God,
- 00:21:40.423 --> 00:21:41.691
- and He wants you back in the story right now.
- 00:21:41.691 --> 00:21:45.462
- The enemy's telling you, you failed and you lost your shot.
- 00:21:45.462 --> 00:21:48.698
- And God is saying, everybody gets a shot
- 00:21:48.698 --> 00:21:52.168
- today to get back in the story of God.
- 00:21:53.036 --> 00:21:55.672
- Two last things.
- 00:21:55.672 --> 00:21:57.340
- The fifth one is that we understand that no ask is too small
- 00:21:57.340 --> 00:22:01.478
- because the King is so great.
- 00:22:01.478 --> 00:22:04.414
- In other words, there's no job too small
- 00:22:05.315 --> 00:22:10.620
- because the King is so great.
- 00:22:11.321 --> 00:22:15.058
- I love this.
- 00:22:15.458 --> 00:22:16.926
- This is one of my favorite verses in Scripture, verse 13.
- 00:22:16.926 --> 00:22:20.430
- "We're down, get John Mark, I sent Tychicus to Ephesus.
- 00:22:20.430 --> 00:22:25.068
- Oh, and when you come, Timothy, hopefully before winter,
- 00:22:25.068 --> 00:22:27.971
- bring my cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas,
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- and my scrolls, especially the parchments."
- 00:22:32.876 --> 00:22:35.011
- (soft music)
- 00:22:35.011 --> 00:22:36.079
- (laughing) You kidding me?
- 00:22:36.079 --> 00:22:38.581
- You're kidding me, right, that the Holy Spirit wasted
- 00:22:38.581 --> 00:22:41.651
- some of His God breath,
- 00:22:41.651 --> 00:22:43.820
- 'cause all Scripture is God-breathed,
- 00:22:43.820 --> 00:22:45.822
- and I'm gonna breathe on one sentence that says,
- 00:22:46.856 --> 00:22:49.092
- "oh, by the way, when you come, please bring my cloak
- 00:22:49.092 --> 00:22:51.795
- that I left with Carpus in Troas."
- 00:22:51.795 --> 00:22:54.731
- Why does that need to be in the Bible?
- 00:22:55.632 --> 00:22:58.501
- (laughing)
- 00:22:58.868 --> 00:23:01.438
- "Hey, Timothy, can you get my coat?"
- 00:23:01.438 --> 00:23:09.179
- I believe that the Holy Spirit wrote that
- 00:23:10.113 --> 00:23:13.716
- in the personal remarks at the end of a brilliant chapter,
- 00:23:13.716 --> 00:23:16.786
- where there should have been a mic drop,
- 00:23:16.786 --> 00:23:18.087
- so that I can know that no job's too small
- 00:23:18.087 --> 00:23:21.324
- if the King is that great.
- 00:23:21.324 --> 00:23:23.827
- - Wow. - Amen.
- 00:23:23.827 --> 00:23:25.562
- - Number two, the enemy has a way of saying,
- 00:23:26.563 --> 00:23:32.135
- who are you to tell anybody about Jesus?
- 00:23:33.069 --> 00:23:35.939
- You're a statistician.
- 00:23:35.939 --> 00:23:40.510
- Stay in your lane.
- 00:23:41.010 --> 00:23:45.915
- The enemy has so many tools.
- 00:23:46.583 --> 00:23:55.692
- None greater than pride.
- 00:23:56.259 --> 00:24:02.799
- So that's what I'm doing right now?
- 00:24:03.600 --> 00:24:09.405
- No, that, no, I don't do that.
- 00:24:10.106 --> 00:24:13.243
- I don't do cloaks, thank you.
- 00:24:13.243 --> 00:24:15.945
- Versus, man, if this King is inviting me in
- 00:24:16.913 --> 00:24:21.317
- there's nothing beneath me,
- 00:24:21.985 --> 00:24:26.022
- except the grace of God, that I'm standing on.
- 00:24:27.023 --> 00:24:33.530
- And I believe that if we can overcome this sense,
- 00:24:34.531 --> 00:24:39.135
- that they are little and big things in the kingdom,
- 00:24:40.203 --> 00:24:42.338
- and just understand that there's just a King in the kingdom.
- 00:24:42.338 --> 00:24:45.408
- - [Congregation] Yeah.
- 00:24:45.408 --> 00:24:47.443
- - And there are no little or big things.
- 00:24:48.378 --> 00:24:50.914
- They're only the King's things in the kingdom.
- 00:24:50.914 --> 00:24:56.819
- And when the King invites me to hold one of His things,
- 00:24:57.987 --> 00:25:03.092
- what a privilege.
- 00:25:03.560 --> 00:25:06.629
- And then lastly, we have to see that the reward of heaven
- 00:25:07.864 --> 00:25:11.334
- is worth the price of life.
- 00:25:11.334 --> 00:25:14.771
- What is worth your life?
- 00:25:15.338 --> 00:25:19.742
- So you just get to live one.
- 00:25:20.410 --> 00:25:22.011
- You don't get two, you don't get to come back.
- 00:25:23.046 --> 00:25:26.149
- You're not gonna get another trip around.
- 00:25:27.083 --> 00:25:32.221
- This is it.
- 00:25:32.622 --> 00:25:34.424
- You get one race, you get one fight, you get one faith.
- 00:25:35.592 --> 00:25:42.599
- And you're going to buy something with your life.
- 00:25:43.666 --> 00:25:51.240
- You're gonna get to own something at the end.
- 00:25:52.275 --> 00:25:57.480
- And Paul is just asking,
- 00:25:58.047 --> 00:25:59.782
- "Do you see and believe today that the reward of heaven
- 00:25:59.782 --> 00:26:04.187
- is worth the price of life?"
- 00:26:04.187 --> 00:26:08.358
- Paul said, when he was writing to the church in Philippi,
- 00:26:09.559 --> 00:26:12.028
- in the first chapter, verse 21, he said, "For to me,
- 00:26:12.028 --> 00:26:18.468
- to live is Christ, and to die is gain."
- 00:26:19.369 --> 00:26:32.081
- Jesus considered you worth dying for,
- 00:26:32.915 --> 00:26:39.989
- hoping that you would consider Him dying for you
- 00:26:41.057 --> 00:26:46.262
- a message worth you giving your life for,
- 00:26:47.230 --> 00:26:52.101
- and just saying, here I am, I'm available.
- 00:26:53.069 --> 00:26:56.406
- I'm available.
- 00:26:56.839 --> 00:26:58.374
- My qualification, I've had an encounter with Jesus,
- 00:26:58.374 --> 00:27:02.512
- and I'm willing to share it with the world.
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